Udupi: These are days of wind and rains fury, obviously trees and house walls keep collapsing, apart from land erosion and pot-holes on roads.
A house belonging to Manjunath Acharya in Voddarse GP near Brahmanarabettu (Bhattarabettu) at Brahmavara collapsed suddenly around midnight, without any earthquake, on Thursday, August 26. As the families were only preparing to sleep at this unearthly hour, they somehow escaped when mud walls and tile roofs fell down.
They had to run out on hearing the crumbling voice of an old house in ruins. Only a huge mound of debris remained where the house was with materials caught underneath. They are tailors.
MLA Halady Srinivas Shetty, MLC Kota Srinivas Poojary, TP member Parimala R Shetty, ex-ZP member Shankar Kunder and Voddarse, GP chairman Gopalakrishna Kanchan among others visited the family in the morning, and assured the aggrieved family of Government assistance soon.